[Wikipedia-l] Re: Language request: Luxembourgish

Thu Jul 15 07:48:40 UTC 2004

Ewen Caroline wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to request a luxembourgish version of Wikipedia. First of all, 
> it's the language of my country, Luxembourg, and second, luxembourgish is 
> only spoken in my country and still not by the whole population as we have 
> 42% foreigners who mostly speak french. To keep the language alive, I think 
> it would be a good idea to have a wikipedia in lux.

This language has an ISO 639-1 code of "lb" and 250,000 native speakers. 
According to SIL it is related to German but not mutually intelligible 
with it. I doubt there will be any objections to me setting this up at 
lb.wikipedia.org

-- Tim Starling